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EEOC Wins Religious Discrimination Suit With Convergys
20/02/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Wins Religious Discrimination Suit With Convergys
By LAURA LIEBECK– During a 2011 job interview Shannon Fantroy, told a Convergys Customer Management Group recruiter that he observes the Jewish sabbeth — which is from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday — and could not work on Saturdays. The recruiter for a call center in Hazelwood, Mo., told Fantroy that unless he […]
Continue reading …EEOC Sues Suffolk, NY, Laundry For Sexual Harassment
10/02/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Sues Suffolk, NY, Laundry For Sexual Harassment
For years a manager at Suffolk Laundry Services in Southampton, N.Y., allegedly physically and verbally sexually harassed multiple female laundry workers at the facility. During the course of several years, the manager regularly touched women on their buttocks, hips, backs, forcibly kissed them, and made comments about their appearance and body parts, the U.S. Equal […]
Continue reading …EEOC Discrimination Cases, Settlements Hit Record High In 2011
07/02/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Discrimination Cases, Settlements Hit Record High In 2011
By LAURA LIEBECK– The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws, last year handled a record number of cases alleging workplace discrimination and secured a record high financial settlement total for those cases. The EEOC’s oversight covers discrimination based on a person’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, […]
Continue reading …LAFD Settles EEOC Harassment Case for Nearly $500,000
06/02/2012 Comments Off on LAFD Settles EEOC Harassment Case for Nearly $500,000
A Los Angeles (LAFD) firefighter was tormented by sexual and religious harassment at work and disciplined in retaliation for participating in another firefighter’s discrimination proceeding. Anthony Almeida was abused by a Catholic priest as a child. He was the target of abuse again as an adult from what should have been an unlikely source: his […]
Continue reading …Pepsi Pays $3 Million to Settle EEOC Discrimination Claim
05/02/2012 Comments Off on Pepsi Pays $3 Million to Settle EEOC Discrimination Claim
By ROBERT SCALLY and R. DAVID WENDEL– Pepsi Beverages will pay $3.13 million and provide job offers and training to settle charges of racial discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Minneapolis office. More than 300 African Americans were affected by a criminal background check policy that disproportionately excluded black applicants from permanent employment […]
Continue reading …2011 Record Year For EEOC Complaints, Settlements
28/11/2011 Comments Off on 2011 Record Year For EEOC Complaints, Settlements
It was a record year for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and it could be said the EEOC became more efficient despite receiving the most workplace discrimination complaints in its 46-year history.. The EEOC received a record 99,947 charges of discrimination in fiscal year 2011, which ended 30 Sept. 2011. Despite this, The EEOC […]
Continue reading …Minnesota Agencies Pay $574,000 For Age Bias In EEOC Suits
22/11/2011 Comments Off on Minnesota Agencies Pay $574,000 For Age Bias In EEOC Suits
Three federal judges have ordered three Minnesota state agencies to pay damages to settle age discrimination charges filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). U.S. District Court judges ordered the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Minnesota Department of Commerce and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety to pay damages to claimants who […]
Continue reading …L.A. Hospital Pays $530,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment Suit
22/11/2011 Comments Off on L.A. Hospital Pays $530,000 in EEOC Sexual Harassment Suit
Sexual harassment cost Garfield Medical Center, an acute care facility in Monterey Park, Calif., $530,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit. According to the EEOC, several of the female targets of the harassment were either retaliated against or compelled to quit after their complaints were ignored by hospital management. The EEOC […]
Continue reading …Quick Guide to EEOC Website Links for Employees & Job Applicants
19/11/2011 Comments Off on Quick Guide to EEOC Website Links for Employees & Job ApplicantsA quick guide to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – EEOC – website links of for employees and job applicants Overview Coverage Timeliness Filing A ChargeHow to File Charge Handling Confidentiality Mediation Remedies Existing Charges Filing a Lawsuit Discrimination by TypeAge Disability Equal Compensation Genetic Information National Origin Pregnancy Race/Color Religion Retaliation Sex Sexual Harassment […]
Continue reading …EEOC Acts On Rule for Age Discrimination in Employment Act
14/11/2011 Comments Off on EEOC Acts On Rule for Age Discrimination in Employment ActThe Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is conducting a public meeting 16 Nov 2011, to vote on a proposed rule providing guidance for what constitutes a “reasonable factor other than age” in defending claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The agency also will have a panel discussion, “Overcoming Barriers to the Employment of Veterans […]
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- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill